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The Siren and the Seashell
And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry
University of Texas Press
A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
University of Texas Press
Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga.
Urban Latin America
The Political Condition from Above and Below
By Alejandro Portes and John Walton
University of Texas Press
This book is an attempt to integrate research on Latin American social organization within a single theoretical framework: development as fundamentally a political problem.
Under the Rainbow
Nature and Supernature among the Panare Indians
University of Texas Press
This ethnographic study of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is the first extensive look at a tribe of this region of the Amazonia.
The Yanoama Indians
A Cultural Geography
University of Texas Press
This is the first geographic study of the Yanoama, an aboriginal South American tribe.
Fields of the Tzotzil
The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas
University of Texas Press
The first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system.
Dramatists in Revolt
The New Latin American Theater
Edited by Leon F. Lyday and George W. Woodyard
University of Texas Press
Dramatists in Revolt, through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater.
The Spanish American Novel
A Twentieth-Century Survey
University of Texas Press
John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality.
A Mexican Family Empire
The Latifundio of the Sánchez Navarro Family, 1765-1867
University of Texas Press
A Mexican Family Empire is a careful examination of the largest latifundio ever to have existed, not only in Mexico but also in all of Latin America—the latifundio of the Sánchez Navarros.
Psychology of the Mexican
Culture and Personality
University of Texas Press
In his quest to understand and describe the behavior of the Mexican, the distinguished Mexican psychologist R. Díaz-Guerrero combines a strong theoretical interest in the relationship of culture to personality with a pragmatic concern for methodology.
Viva Cristo Rey!
The Cristero Rebellion and the Church-State Conflict in Mexico
University of Texas Press
This book depicts a national calamity in which sincere people followed their convictions to often tragic ends.
The Artist in New York
Letters to Jean Charlot and unpublished writings, 1925-1929.
By José Clemente Orozco; Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
University of Texas Press
The letters and unpublished writings of Orozco from this period (1925-1929) describe an important period of transition in the artist's life.
San José de Gracia
Mexican Village in Transition
By Luis González; Translated by John Upton
University of Texas Press
The history of a small town in Mexico.
Mexican Revolution
Genesis under Madero
University of Texas Press
A history of the early years of the Mexican Revolution.
The Bow and the Lyre
The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History
By Octavio Paz; Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
University of Texas Press
Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.
Ritual Humor in Highland Chiapas
University of Texas Press
How humor is used in religious rituals in three Mayan communities.
The Black-Man of Zinacantan
A Central American Legend
University of Texas Press
Sarah Blaffer analyzes the position of anomalies in societies in this stidy of a norm-offending, yet norm-reinforcing, specter who by his character and actions demonstrates the proper sex roles for Zinacantec men and women.
Mexico in Its Novel
A Nation's Search for Identity
University of Texas Press
A perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel.
Mexican Revolution
The Constitutionalist Years
University of Texas Press
A study of Mexico during 1913-1920.
Family Ties
By Clarice Lispector; Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
University of Texas Press
Here are collected thirteen of the Brazilian writer’s most brilliantly conceived stories, where mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition.
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